"an illiterate partizan...negro equality": Richmond Enquirer, May 22, 1860.
Democratic National Convention in Charleston: See "The Charleston Convention," chapter 1 in Halstead, Three Against Lincoln, pp. 310.
"in less than sixty...of the seceders": Ibid., pp. 84, 87.
Baltimore convention: For a full discussion of the Democratic Convention that nominated Douglas, see "The National Democratic Convention at Baltimore," chapter 6 in ibid., pp. 185264.
Breckinridge/Lane; Bell/Everett: For a discussion of the conventions that nominated Breckinridge and Bell, see "Inst.i.tute Hall ("Seceders") Convention" and "The Const.i.tutional Democratic Convention," respectively, chapters 7 and 2, in ibid., pp. 26577, 11117.
"The great democratic...of their own": Entry for June 23, 1860, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 75.
"the chances were...fortunes a turn": AL to Anson G. Henry, July 4, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 82.
"Mr. Lincoln received...the great world": Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 18788.
"the prospects of...work with a will": Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, ed. Weed, p. 603.
apparent to both...Lincoln against Douglas: In Pennsylvania, the sole exception, Douglas would finish third to Lincoln and Breckinridge.
"Now what difference...between them": Montgomery [Ala.] Daily Mail, July 6, 1860, quoted in Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, p. 342.
A Lincoln victory...such diverse const.i.tuencies: For an a.n.a.lysis of the multifaceted campaign in the North, see Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, pa.s.sim; Miller, Lincoln"s Virtues, pp. 46567.
"a mere printed circular...not to reply at all": SPC to Lyman Trumbull, November 12, 1860, reel 14, Chase Papers.
"much chagrined...Mr. Abe Lincoln": Journal of Commerce, reprinted in NYTrib, June 27, 1860.
"Holding myself...stand ready": AL to SPC, May 26, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 53.
"first, that...of the people": NYTrib, October 25, 1860.
Browning called on Bates: Entry for May 31, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 132; Cain, Lincoln"s Attorney General, p. 115.
"declined to take the stump": Entry for May 31, 1860, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 132.
"probably give offense...Union party": Entry for September 20, 1860, in ibid., p. 145.
"I give my opinion...in early life": EB, Letter of Hon. Edward Bates, of Missouri, Indorsing Mr. Lincoln, and Giving His Reasons for Supporting the Chicago Nominees (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Globe Office, 1860); EB to O. H. Browning, June 11, 1860, reprinted in "Political: Letter of Judge Bates, pledging his support to the Republican ticket," NYT, supplement, June 23, 1860.
"His character is...firm as Jackson": EB to Wyndham Robertson, November 3, 1860, quoted in Cain, Lincoln"s Attorney General, p. 120.
"The campaign started...preside or attend": Procter, Lincoln and the Convention of 1860, p. 16.
"My personal feelings...a public act": CS to WHS, May 20, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
"one & only one...nomination in "64": George Pomeroy to WHS, May 21, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
"the suitable man...for mere expediency": William Mellen to FAS, May 21, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
considered resigning immediately from the Senate: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 229.
"When I went out...at every corner": Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, pp. 45354.
"give the malignants": Israel Washburn to WHS, May 19, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
"in the character...response in my heart": WHS to FAS, May 30, 1860, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, pp. 45456.
"responsibility...shorter every day": WHS to home, June 13, 1860, quoted in ibid., p. 458.
"You have earned...reasonably claim": FAS to WHS, May 30, 1860, reel 114, Seward Papers.
"Your services...highest success": Charles Francis Adams to WHS, May 22, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
"I am content...the public interest": WHS to TW, June 26, 1860, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 459.
"was about to take...depths of discouragement": Procter, Lincoln and the Convention of 1860, p. 16.
John Nicolay..."life ran down": Helen Nicolay, Lincoln"s Secretary: A Biography of John G. Nicolay (New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1949; Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1971), pp. vii (quote), 27, 34, 36.
"He sat down...could have desired": Utica Morning Herald, reprinted in NYTrib, July 9, 1860.
"can not only discuss...dress a deer-skin": Missouri Democrat, reprinted in NYTrib, September 29, 1860.
"an air of quiet...unflinchingly": Utica Morning Herald, reprinted in NYTrib, July 9, 1860.
"Ten thousand inquiries...create the necessity": Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 23, 1860.
"Whatever of awkwardness...of society": New York Evening Post, reprinted in Albany Evening Journal, May 24, 1860.
"a very handsome...sparkling talker": Ohio State Journal, Columbus, Ohio, May 29, 1860.
"a Man of the People": NYTrib, May 26, 1860, quoted in Nevins, Ordeal of the Union. Vol. II: The Emergence of Lincoln, part II, Prologue to Civil War, 18571861, p. 274.
"log-cabin, hard-cider": Samuel Eliot Morison and Henry Steele Commager, The Growth of the American Republic, 4th edn. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1930; 1950), p. 556.
"It has also afforded...be inspired": Ryland Fletcher, quoted in Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 169.
a "nullity...a nullity anywhere": Quoted in Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I, p. 365.
"here is a stick...in 1825": NYH, October 20, 1860.
"it would be both...willingly say": AL to T. Apolion Cheney, August 14, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 93.
"Your letter...I write at all": AL to Leonard Swett, May 30, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 57.
"he would like...of being lynched": Luthin, The First Lincoln Campaign, p. 170.
the cohesion of the new Republican Party: Ibid., pp. 2122.